The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., Volume 36J. Dodsley, 1799 |
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... Measures for the enfuing Campaign with the British Miniftry . Project of the French relating to the Netherlands discovered and fruftrated . Hopes of the Republican Adminiftration in confequence of the Rivalship fubfifting between the ...
... Measures for the enfuing Campaign with the British Miniftry . Project of the French relating to the Netherlands discovered and fruftrated . Hopes of the Republican Adminiftration in confequence of the Rivalship fubfifting between the ...
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... measures they had taken , to open the prefent campaign with as much brilliancy as they had clofed the former . Their two fortunate Generals , Jourdain and Pichegru , were now placed at the head of that prodis gious mafs of military ...
... measures they had taken , to open the prefent campaign with as much brilliancy as they had clofed the former . Their two fortunate Generals , Jourdain and Pichegru , were now placed at the head of that prodis gious mafs of military ...
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... measures . Such being the relative fituation of the Emperor and the King of Pruffia , the French govern- ment was now confidered as per- manently established , and in no danger of being overturned by ex- ternal force . The only perils ...
... measures . Such being the relative fituation of the Emperor and the King of Pruffia , the French govern- ment was now confidered as per- manently established , and in no danger of being overturned by ex- ternal force . The only perils ...
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... measures were indifpenfable , and it behoved the diet warmly to concur in levying the fupplies prefcribed by the Ger manic conftitution in cafes of emer gency , fuch as the prefent . To this purpofe it would be requifite to call on the ...
... measures were indifpenfable , and it behoved the diet warmly to concur in levying the fupplies prefcribed by the Ger manic conftitution in cafes of emer gency , fuch as the prefent . To this purpofe it would be requifite to call on the ...
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... measure that accorded with their particular views , and fuch an indifference to the common intereft where their own was not peculiarly implicated , that he thought it in- confiftent with his honour and duty to truft himself and the ...
... measure that accorded with their particular views , and fuch an indifference to the common intereft where their own was not peculiarly implicated , that he thought it in- confiftent with his honour and duty to truft himself and the ...
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